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I keep thinking I'm not gonna make anymore comics about Trump and then he just keeps enraging me and I have to get it out of my system because everything him and his followers are doing is so ridiculous. So I guess you could say he's excellent artistic motivation.
At least you’ll have a constant stream of new material for the next 4 years. It just sucks that it comes at everyone else’s expense. On that note, I apologize for havin a bunch of morons in the White House and in this country at the moment. It’s rather embarrassing….
The problem is making fun of current politics is basically just showing current politics. Not the satirists' faults, it's just how stupid everything is. Like making fun of a two year old with a hand gun shitting their pants.
When he took over the first time, my hopeful silver lining was that it would produce an "American Idiot Part 2" album from Green Day like when they were mad at Bush. I'm still gona hold out delusional hope for a nostalgic 2000s punk rock album to come out of this haha
In 24 (NYE celebration) the actually changed "Redneck Agenda" to "MAGA Agenda". And apparently this year to "Elon Agenda". So it is, at the very least, on their mind when singing the song.
Not a full album (yet), but not nothing.
I'm not going to learn how to post images or gifs, but you can envision the "So you're telling me there's a chance" one here. ;)
Ok but I'd kill for that bubble pop of the 90s/early 2000s. "IVE GOT A POCKET GOT A POCKET FULL OF SUNSHINE" makes me a lot more upbeat and optimistic than "Here comes the 2 to the 3 to the 4. When it's last call and they kick us out the door"
Lots of songs about partying nowadays. And that's great. But DAMN do I miss songs about just being HAPPY.
I think the most infuriating part is seeing Canadian Patriots (TM)(C)(R) on social media cheering on the annexation of Canada because gosh Trudeau is just so bad guys, man,
pedantic edit - it's "any more" when it's a quantity. It's "anymore" when it's a time.
Make all the Trump comics you want, he and his cult deserve ridicule. It's also WAY more effective than actual arguments about science/policy/etc. They want to have those fights. But ridicule hits them right in the feelings.
Nothing takes away fascists power like laughter. They feed on anger and rage, but if you and everyone around you laughs in their face they cow and slink away.
I’m so glad you’re standing up to the bullies that want to silence you. Let them know that the more they rage, the more you’re going to showcase their hypocrisy and fragility.
It was honestly by design: the Southern Strategy and the gambit of anti-intellectualism was push forth because those in power feared an informed electorate who would ask for changes in society. Born from the vitriol of the Civil Rights movement, the gambit was that if civics and education was underfunded and underdeveloped in prominent conservative state strongholds that those politicians would be able to hold power. By keeping voters ill-informed, they could hookwink and spin narratives on the political stage, while dodging the principles of accountability since the masses wouldn't have the tools necessary keep those leader's actions in check.
In actuality, it worked a bit too well, because the entire goals of the Republican party became hijacked by a far right populous movement who now commands said ill-informed electorate with a cult-of-personality demagogue. These people have treated politics like a blood-sport, with a tribal mentality in regards to voting where victory is more important than justice or principles.
It wouldn't be so terrible if it wasn't happening in the country with the biggest military in the world. The dominoes of consequence are really thundering down in the present from those choices from the past.
If I had previously wanted to visit a country that began openly talking about conquering my country by force and randomly detaining visitors indefinitely, I'd probably cancel my plans too.
Must be from South of Chicago then. Pizzacake is from north of Chicago. It's like someone from Chicago visiting Tennessee. It's just a totally different climate down there.
"I’m glad Trump’s here at the moment, uhh, it’s like daddy arrived and he’s taking his belt off, you know? So, I think he’ll get some results here quickly." - Mel Gibson
Not surprising. This is the person who called one of Obama's advisors an ape (she claimed she didn't know the advisor was black). And then in true those-type-of-people fashion, blamed it on Ambien.
Spend years as a Public Figure, lauded as typically someone either outstandingly wholesome, and/or who delivers (usually 'folksy') wisdom, based on their public persona 2. Constant affirmation of their goodness/wisdom + fame/security + fallible human nature lead to them believing they are their public image 2.a) in some cases, added step of losing public relevance, or never actually being that famous to begin with 3. Do/say something that exposes their flawed human nature - express prejudice, ignorance, outright hate, things like that. 4. Face criticism from self-identified fans, causing them to feel the threat of rejection by their primary source of validation as A Good Person; their core identity is called into question. 5. The discomfort of dissonance and expectation of accountability is too much to bear after buying into their own brand for so long, and because they are not actually A Good Person, they resist self-examination and turn towards defensive response instead. 6. Receive immediate comfort and support from people that were fans and agree with whatever they said/did, as well as new support from people who may not have been fans to begin with, but also support whatever was said/done 7. Turn away entirely from self-critique, dive into their new hugbox of support and validation 8. Experience a whole new form of public relevance, paired with profitability and a new form of financial security; re-gear their entire public persona towards defending, excusing, and rationalizing their beliefs and being platformed for it by their supporters. 8.a) Whether or not they personally align with the beliefs of their new core support demographics, their priorities being ego-soothing and profit, they lean fully into exploiting the support (aka, the grifter route) 9. Enter into a whole new world of people who further encourage them, introducing and cultivating more and more radical stances until they are a cartoon villain caricature of their original persona.
Roseann's (3) moment was this, and what we're seeing these days is her being well into step 9. There's a great deal of actors, writers, musicians, comedians, influencers, and so on that have gone this exact route.
Imagine if Liberals made a rap song and video showcasing their entire personally over a political party. You can’t because normal thinking folks don’t do that.
Well, if they revere Trump as such a Messiah, here's hoping they eat enough of his body and drink enough of his blood that there's only an orange skeleton left.
Eh, it all comes from Judiasm, which coalesced while most of its people were nomadic shepherds. People write what they know, so you get a LOT of sheep and goat metaphors.
All moclans are assigned to male gender and the existence of a female gender is basically denied and suppressed. No one has a choice. it's a requirement that you conform even if they have to force you.
MAGA has to reprogram themselves every time Trump does something that hurts them. Currently they have to do weekly reprograms because Trump is actively trying to crash the economy.
"Republican In Name Only", basically the Republican equivalent of what heretics are for Catholic or counter-revolutionaries where for USSR party members.
Once of the basic elements of manipulation using political propaganda is creating an internal enemy to supress (immigration) and an external enemy to attack (Canada).
Just a reminder that the current trans-issues (in the political realm) are entirely fabricated to create single-issue voters. The entire right-wing sphere is designed to create single-issue voters. Abortion, LGBT Rights, 2A, etc., all of these things are facilitated from the ground up to create voters to be single-issue voters.
If they can convince someone to be a single-issue voter, they will never listen to any of the arguments from the other side.
There's always been a playful energy between Canada and the US, at least, that's how it felt to me throughout the 90s til present. Well, maybe not presently. Feels spiteful now.
I’ve always loved how the War of 1812 between US and Canada (well, technically England using Canada as a proxy since it was before their independence) both US and Canada say they won the war, but the reality is basically it just got to expensive to continue fighting and nobody really wanted to anymore, so both sides just ended it peacefully (although the British did burn the White House on their way back home lol) and since then the US and Canada have had the largest undefended border between 2 countries. It always felt like 2 brothers teasing each other. It’s sad to see that end and it all be replaced by hate 😢
Yeah. The one time we absolutely needed people in the left to stop providing aid and comfort to the enemy and we couldn't get our fucking act together.
Being real, it's every time fascists have ever gotten into power. It basically exclusively happens because the left and center cant stop bickering over little bullshit and get together, so the fascists scoop up a plurality.
Trump’s followers are like that guy who clings to the wrong advice, then wonders why nothing ever works out. They’ll follow him right off a cliff and still claim it’s the best fucking view they've had lmao
I've been seeing young dudes like this for a long time, where they fall into the right wing nonsense machine and adopt its excuses for why they don't have a girlfriend, or they don't have the sort of career they want etc.
The end result is that it usually promotes them to act like huge assholes, which doesn't help, but they keep doing it because they don't want to admit that they made a mistake.
The goal of a cult is to find people who feel ostracized, and convince them to ostracize themselves further until they're incapable of interacting with the broader world beyond the cult.
Which is utterly hilarious projection coming from the same people that were longtime EV haters, who deny climate change and saw EVs as an acknowledgment of it, but are now taking on new debt to buy a Tesla. Same people who were ardent constitutionalists, who are now cheering as it’s being shat on every other day by their idol. Who all wear the same made-in-china MAGA clothing while screaming “America First”. Same people who froth with rage at immigrants but cheer on Trumpelon’s H1B support, and the idea to sell US citizenships. The same people that denounced Russian invasion of Ukraine for years until they were told it was actually Ukraine that started the war, and that Zelenskyy is the dictator, and will now defend that position viciously. Same people that roared about high consumer prices and are currently cheering on the new policies that are guaranteed to raise those prices even higher. The same people that are being told “the recession I’m needlessly creating is going to be for your own good in the long run” and accept it as truth at face value.
The same people that have their own varying opinions in the first 24 hours after a major event of any type(r /con has thousands of examples of this), but their “opinion” shifts after Fox News and Trump have come out with their official talking points (justifications, minimizations, wild interpretations) about the event, and from then, the people parrot those statements, facts and logic be damned. Their feelings about most anything in the news are dictated to them and they fall in line immediately.
There is literally nothing that this one man cannot convince them of, with just words and zero proof. He could tell them that car tires are highly nutritious meals for True Patriots™️ and they’d be throwing some tire strips in the skillet that evening for dinner. He could tell them that everyone with naturally red hair is genetically wired for pedophilia, and they should be jailed for the safety of society, to Make America Great, and there would be red headed MAGAs showing up at police stations to turn themselves in.
So…yes, all the same people that call the other side “sheeple” and tell them to do their own research and think for themselves. Victims of the most successful psyop campaign in modern history. It’s absolutely stunning and defies comprehension.
Alpha? Like the early version of a male, before testing, bug-fixes, and necessary updates. Unstable, unreliable, erratic, and certainly not suitable for release to the general public.
I saw the comment on Reddit, and I am paraphrasing but this is the best I've heard:
The people who wear shirts and have bumper stickers and signs that say "fuck your feelings" are showing that they actually care quite a lot about your feelings.
They literally spent time and money to ensure you know what they think. You cannot show more how much you care about someone else's opinion than that.
Republicans and specially MAGA are all about projection. Everything they think say and do, they claim is the left that does it instead. Want to know what they’re doing, or thinking? See what they’re accusing the left to be doing and you’ll find it.
its a side effect of their inability to use empathy. They're incapable of understanding other peoples motivations so they just assume everyone is just as shitty as they are. Its partly why doing the right thing because its the right thing rather than for personal gain confuses them to the point of rage.
Some of the hardcore rightwingers, this isn't even an exaggeration. Like Kurt Schlichter. In nearly every column he writes, he quite literally tells his readers what to think. "You should think this." "I think this. You should, too." Don't take my word for it. Read his columns. (Drink heavily first.)
It's been this way with Republicans going all the way back to Reagan and before. They don't have principles or even personal standards. They just want to be told what to do and think by what they perceive to be a "strong" authoritarian. And since they've been told since birth that they are god's "chosen people" they honestly believe that they are always in the right no matter what atrocities they endorse or commit.
Ohhh. Can you do one where it’s Trump saying in one frame somewhere along the lines of, “You can’t be doing that.” Or “You can’t be happy.” (Insert whatever the person is enjoying)
Person’s response say, “You can’t make me stop. This is America!”
Next panel has Trump saying, “It’s illegal based on one of my EOs around here somewhere!”
(Visual is of Trump tossing through piles and piles of EOs lying on the ground in his Mar-a-Lago bathroom).
This is a very loose rough draft, but sure you could make it even better!
I still don't understand how a guy who was born a multi-millionaire and shits in a golden toilet but constantly complains about how unfair life is to him could be an alPhA MaLe to anyone.
oh they aren't going to like having this pointed out.
LOL
hehe. I like that you're doing these again, ignore the haters as much as they are going to try to make that difficult, being silenced is worse than being trolled cause then they win.
Fr. I watched my close friend be upset about the abortion ban, and then begin talking about the great replacement and how smart rfk jr is in the span of a year. I don’t understand now people can be this and not see the hypocrisy.
Fun fact the scientist/investigator who coined the idea for a pack alpha later said that that concept is mostly bogus in nature, it only really comes out with animals in captivity
One of things I’ve noticed about depictions of him is an exaggeration of his features which I think just serves to make him seem more like a cartoon villain of the week. But he is very real and dangerous. Your accurate depiction (in your style) does the opposite and makes it clearer how insane the whole situation is.
I do wonder if the economy tanks and people are really feeling the pain…if that will be enough for a sizable chunk of maga to wake up. Probably not. But all is needed is a small percentage
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